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Here, you can find information on a broad variety of topics thanks to Cincinnati Museum Center’s extensive collections and knowledgeable curators. Our Geier Collections and Research Center is home to the curatorial staff and the science and history collections, including Archaeology, Archives and Manuscripts, Ethnology, History Objects and Fine Art, Invertebrate Paleontology, Minerology, Moving Images and Sound Recordings, Photographs and Prints, Printed Works, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Zoology. With millions of years’ worth of history at our fingertips, you never know what we’ll pull off the shelf next.

Vertebrate Paleontology

What is that dinosaur doing here? It’s not the sort of thing that you typically find in a brewery, but this is no ordinary brewery and this is no ordinary dinosaur.
The brewery is Rhinegeist, an exciting destination for craft beer lovers in Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.... [READ MORE]

Vertebrate fossils are typically rare and often have great scientific importance for interpreting the history of life on Earth. They are protected in many jurisdictions by local, state or federal law and are coveted by museums. Cincinnati Museum Center’s Vertebrate Paleontology Collection is the... [READ MORE]

The Vertebrate Paleontology Collection at Cincinnati Museum Center (typically the bones and teeth of extinct animals, but also including fossil eggs, footprints and other trace fossils, plus some preserved soft tissues) has a long and storied, if somewhat checkered, history. A Cincinnati fossil... [READ MORE]

The Cincinnati Museum Center vertebrate paleontology collection holds many fossils and sub-fossil bones gathered at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, about 20 miles south of the Museum. The “lick” is known as the birthplace of American vertebrate paleontology, in recognition of the first organized... [READ MORE]

One of the more common questions that visitors ask at the Museum is, “Where are the dinosaurs?” One of our most popular dinosaur exhibits can now be seen at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. This free exhibit in downtown Cincinnati is part of our Curate My Community project,... [READ MORE]

Museums and libraries collect materials in an effort to document human history and to learn more about the natural world. Museum Center acquires and preserves its collections of historically- or scientifically-important items as a public trust. These collections are maintained for the long-term... [READ MORE]